On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 03:41:38PM +0100, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
> I have to admit I haven't been following the development of Cabal
> too closely.  I am still using my own Makefiles to build HaXml, and
> these tweaks only affect that process.

You added depends and hs-libraries fields to the top-level .cabal file,
which triggers a parse error.

> My (possibly erroneous) impression is that the .cabal file is
> essentially what I need to supply as the input to 'ghc-pkg register',
> with the caveat that it needs a few extra fields to locate the
> interface files, library archive, and so on.

OK, I was confused by you calling it .cabal.  The fptools build system
does something similar, calling these installed package info files
package.conf.{inplace,installed}.

You might find Cabal easier, though.
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